| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FA 2001 2 | |
| Title: | ROMAN PALMETTE ANTEFIX | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FA | |
| Year: | 2001 | |
| Object Number: | 2 | |
| Description: | Antefix, attached to semi-circular cover tile. Face decorated in relief with 11-petal palmette, edges shallowly cut to mirror petals. Central petal taller and round-tipped, other petals droop. Round heart, beneath which two tendrils, from which spring 2 small scrolls and a petal (?) at upper end, and a small scroll and leaf at bottom; between tendrils hangs an indistinct lotus (?) with petals pointing down. See FA-1998-001 for same antefix. | |
| Decoration: | Purple paint on face, applied directly to clay. | |
| Material: | Coarse light reddish clay with 2% small white inclusions, coarse voids, possible pieces of unmixed pale clay. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 | |
| Condition: | Intact, broken at juncture to cover tile; paint almost wholly gone. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.227 W00.182 (face) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | Depth00.10 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Early Roman | |
| Area: | Panaghia southeast | |
| Context: | NB941 B2 P16 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia southeast Image: bw 2001 012 31 Basket: NB941 B2 P16 Notebook Page: NB 941, spread 13 (pp. 16 - 17) |
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